Overlooked this email, And overlooked the make world process, My apologies for giving inaccurate information
Cheers, -- Kind regards, Remko Lodder Elvandar.org/DSINet.org www.mostly-harmless.nl Dutch community for helping newcomers on the hackerscene mrtg.grunn.org Dutch mirror of MRTG -----Oorspronkelijk bericht----- Van: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Danny Pansters Verzonden: zondag 29 februari 2004 2:31 Aan: [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Onderwerp: Re: kernel compile error On Sunday 29 February 2004 01:52, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Im kinda new at this and > > I was compiling my kernel on my Dell Inspiron600m running FreeBSD 5.2 > RELEASE when I just remembered[after taking a nap] that I did > > #make buildkernel KERNCONF=GENERIC If you build your own kernel, you should give it another name than GENERIC (and change ident in your config file). > > and I forgot to edit the /usr/src/sys/i386/conf/GENERIC file before > running the process. > > anyway, the #make buildkernel completed and i wanted to change the GENERIC > file so i went aroung and commented out all the stuff that i didnt have on > my system and did a #make buildkernel KERNCONF=GENERIC again only to have > errors after about a minute into the process. > > My Questions Are: > Is it wrong to do this process again after a successful #make buildkernel? > If so, what should I do to do it successfully? [should i rm -rf /usr/src > && cvsup -g -L 2 /etc/standard-supfile && make world again?] Never run "make world" literally. Run make buildworld, make kernel, make installworld, mergemaster. > > Or is it possible that my GENERIC file is wrong? Yes, you edited too much out. This is a FAQ: > #device scbus # SCSI bus (required for SCSI) > device umass # Disks/Mass storage - Requires scbus and HTH, Dan _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
